BrunoMMCarvalho

IMPERIAL MARKER #2
Limited edition of 10 + 1 PA
Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 29 cm
Materials: porcelain and felt markers
2014

Contemporary societies tend to extinguish the ancestral knowledge. Not being compatible with a fast technological and cultural changes, which rhythms and different procedures induces its extinction or “musealization”. In Jingdezhen, masters, manufacturing techniques and local materials are disappearing quickly. To a problem without solution, I decided to try a new materialfelt markers. Usually used to mark production defects after firing, these markers are now being used as a new painting technique Imperial Marker features a surprising effect, similar to an original blue cobalt glazed from Imperial China.

AXA STADIUM MIRROR
Unique piece
Materials: Injected high density polyurethane, mirror
Dimensions: 110 x 140 x 12 cm
Weight: 15 kg
Braga, Portugal
(2012)

AXA STADIUM MIRROR
I was asked to developed another site-specific object for Show Me gallery. After visiting the city several times, to choose a local building to work with, it seemed obvious to me to play with an architecture detail of the Axa Stadium, from Sporting Braga football club and one of the most emblematic buildings drawn by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura (2011 Pritzker Prize).

SMALLE HAVEN CHAISE LONGUE
Unique piece
Materials: Injected high density polyurethane
Dimensions: 163x 87 x 56 cm
Weight: 25 kg
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
(2011)

The Smalle Haven Chaise Longue is the first object developed with the site-specific furniture concept. To play with the concept of unique designs, I've developed functional objects in which forms are extracted from selected architecture details. The chaise longue was made from an interior architecture detail from the Smalle Haven exhibition space.

TEMPELHOF LAMP
Unique piece
Materials: High density polyurethane, steel and plexiglass
Dimensions: 93x 78 x 67 cm
Weight: 35 kg
Berlin, Germany
(2011)

Tempelhof is the Berlin historical airport that was famous for the food supply airlift, in 1948, during the soviet blocade, that had avoided Berlin’s inhabitants to starve to death. Meanwhile, another operation gained widespread attention – the legendary Little Vittles operation. Before landing, pilots had noticed hundreds of German children gathered together at the end of the runway watching the aircraft landings. By the end of the airlift, 23 tons of candy parachutes were dropped around Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Tempelhof lamp is the second site-specific object and was extract from a architecture detail from the airport main entrance building facade.

MAGIC CARPETS
Unlimited edition
Materials: Industrial fabrics leftovers
Dimensions: 50 x 50 x 85cm
Weight: 35 kg
Bogas do Meio, Portugal
(2008)

Flôr do Linho is a small handcraft loom company based in Bogas do Meio, in middle of Gardunha mountains, located in the center of Portugal and between Bogas de Cima and Bogas de Baixo. Elsa, Aida and Cecília are the craft ladies. In the beginning, there was a barrier of shyness because they haven't work with design processes neither with designers, by the end they were proposing their own ideas.

BrunoMMCarvalho

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designer non based

Degree in Ceramic Design, by ESAD.CR, in 2007.
Since then has collaborated with several designers, as Miguel Vieira Baptista, Fernando Brízio and Maarten Baas, where after completion of internship Leonardo da Vinci in 2008, collaborated as a freelance designer until 2012.

Conceived and coordinated the project of creating Experimenta o Campo, started in 2006, in partnership with the Center for the study of New Artistic Trends (CENTA) and the ESAD.CR, consisting of creation residences between design students and craftsmen of center of Portugal.

In 2008 was selected for the contest Jeunes Designers at Design Parade 3 in Villa Noialles, in Hyères, France.

In 2009, has participated as consultant designer on the Aldeias do Xisto Summer Intervention Design Workshops, promoted by ADXTUR.

Conceived and coordinated the international Made Out Portugal platform between 2010 to 2012, for abroad Portuguese author design promotion in national and international events.

In 2012, won a scholarship for a residency at Escola Regional de Artesanato da Ilha do Pico ,in Azores, promoted by the Regional Government of the Azores.

In 2014, was co-curator of the exhibition “Never for Money, Always for Love, at the Museum MUDAM – Luxembourg, promoted by the Instituto Camões, in which has being responsible for the exhibition design concept, selection of Portuguese designers and exhibition design display ; included into the programming of Design City Luxembourg.
Also has participated in the seminar Design, Poverty, Fiction Reloaded. Recently, he won a scholarship from the Fundação Oriente, Lisbon, for a creation project in Jingdezhen city- the porcelain capital of China.

Since 2008, has been developing his work, without studio, by research of new creation processes defined by the specificities of different cultural and social contexts.

EXHIBITIONS

2014

iConfess
Never for Money, Always for Love Exhibition
MUDAM- Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Luxembourg
Never for Money, Always for Love
Co-Curator and Scenography Design
MUDAM Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Luxembourg
Site-Specific Furniture
Dubai Design Days, by Show Me Gallery
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

iConfess
Projeto Travessa da Ermida
at Experimenta Design EXD’13
Lisbon, Portugal

2013
Site-Specific Furniture
Enquanto Apropriação by Arquivo 237
Lisbon, Portugal

Cinema Cork Box
Spatial design instalation
Arquiteturas Film Festival
Lisbon, Portugal

Barbowls
Domestic Territoires by Ilivetomorrow Gallery
Hong-Kong, China

Site-Specific Furniture
JustMad4 by Show-Me Gallery
Madrid, Spain

Magic Carpets
JustMad4 curated by Alvaro Catalan de Ocon
Madrid, Spain

2012
AD – Design in Architecture
by Show Me Gallery, Braga, Portugal

Radical Materiality
by Ilivetomorrow Gallery at Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China

2011
Rent-a-car Gallery – Made Out Portugal #2
DMY – International Design Festival, Berlin, Germany

Linha Branca – Made Out Portugal #3
Experimenta Design Parallel Events, Lisbon, Portugal

Uma Casa na Pradaria
Experimenta Design Parallel Events, Lisbon, Portugal

Still Life – Made Out Portugal #4
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2010
Copy Nature / The Nature of Copies
De Krabbedans gallery, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Revolution 99-09
Experimenta Design, Lisbon, Portugal

Copy Nature / The Nature of Copies
Ventura Lambrate, Milan, Italy

Made Out Portugal #1
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2009
Magic Carpets
Fumi Gallery, London, UK

Magic Carpets
Fumi Gallery at Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy

Working on Furniture
Experimenta Design Parallel Events, Lisbon, Portugal

Copy Nature / The Nature of Copies
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Aldeias do Xisto Design & Intervention – Summer Design Workshops
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2008
Experimenta o Campo
Fábrica Features Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

Experimenta o Campo
Salone del Mobile de Milano at Tuttobenne, Milan, Italy

Design Parade 03 – Young Designers Contest
Villa Noailles Hyères, France

Magic Carpets
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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